More Bristol pharmacies will be giving out Covid jabs
The pharmacy clinics support the vaccinations taking place at the local mass vaccination site at Ashton Gate
11:45, 28 JAN 2021
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Weston Rugby Club Stand at The Recreational Ground.
- Credit: Mark Atherton
Weston Town Council will write to the Bristol North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (BNSSG CCG) to express concern about the proposed location of a new multi-million-pound health centre.
In December, the CCG announced its preferred location to build the new health centre on non-playing land at Weston Rugby Club.
The group hopes to work with the developer, Studio Hive, to create the health centre in one of the units to be built on land surrounding the club’s recreation ground in Sunnyside Road.
At a Weston Town Council meeting on Monday, councillor Mike Bell, who represents central ward, said the authority welcomes the town centre investment but it is ‘really important’ that things are done in an open way which listens to people in the area.
Military will be used to ease coronavirus pressure at Weston Hospital
Military personnel are to work at several West Country hospitals to support NHS staff during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
The armed forces will support staff working in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire and Devon as Covid-19 cases continue to rise.
A list of some of the hospitals and health care providers in the South West which will receive military support has been released, which includes Weston Hospital. Other hospitals include Bristol Royal Infirmary, Southmead Hospital, Yate Minor Injuries Unit, Clevedon Minor Injuries Unit, South Bristol Urgent Treatment Centre, Royal United Hospital Bath and Exeter Nightingale Hospital.
A SOMERSET GP surgery that was vaccinating 128 people-an-hour has had to slow down after its supplies were capped, a “distraught” local patient group has claimed. Mendip Vale Medical Group, which has 65,000 patients on its books, has been administering Covid-19 vaccines since mid-December. Staff dedicated 20 rooms to vaccinate patients and were innoculating 128 people-an-hour, 12 hours-a-day, and planned to treat around 1,000 people a day going forward. But the practice, in Langford, Somerset, is now having its vaccine capacity restricted by the local health authorities - leaving one local patient group baffled the decision. The outraged patient participation group (PPG) has lodged a formal complaint to the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) Care Commissioning Group, which manages vaccine supplies.